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The DoNation and Good Energy Come to Bristol for BIG Green Week

11th June 2013

Do something free and easy to make a real difference

BIG Green Week has teamed up with The DoNation and 100% renewable electricity supplier Good Energy to encourage people to take simple steps towards a more climate-friendly lifestyle. Bristol festival goers are being asked to pledge to DO just one simple thing differently.

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Plan A’s Mike Barry is ‘Doing the right thing” – and this time it’s personal

London, 15 October 2012

As the man behind the well known Plan A sustainability strategy, Marks & Spencer’s Head of Sustainability, Mike Barry, is no stranger to “doing the right thing” in his professional life.

Now he’s applied that same passion to his personal life by doing a half marathon on behalf of The DoNation, an award-winning social enterprise that replaces cash sponsorship with action to encourage environmental behavior change and carbon savings.

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Record breaking explorer tackles toughest challenge yet

London, 18 October 2011

Intrepid adventurer uses solo polar expedition to spur action against climate change
 
How far would you go to demonstrate your commitment to combatting climate change? To the ends of the earth? Polar explorer and adventurer Mark Wood is doing just that.
 
Mark Wood is used to conquering extreme challenges. From 2007’s Top Gear expedition to the Magnetic North Pole to a 70 day ‘Arctic survival’ expedition, he has seen more than most. But next month Mark sets off for his toughest challenge to date.

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Forum for the Future triathletes invite sponsors to create the change

24th September 2011, London

A team from one of the UK’s leading sustainability charities, Forum for the Future, will be swimming, cycling and running their way around Hever Castle Triathlon today to raise a unique form of sponsorship – change.

Not the change you find in your pocket but small lifestyle changes that you can make towards a brighter, greener, healthier nation. The Forum for the Future team has raised all of their sponsorship through an innovative new social platform, The DoNation.

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The DoNation launches new form of sponsorship that replaces cash with environmental action

10th May 2011, London

Today sees the launch of The DoNation, an online environmental organisation which replaces the giving of cash for sponsorship with the 'giving' of environmental actions: www.thedonation.org.uk

The platform aims to use the well established social and viral nature of sponsorship to reach and motivate the widespread public to make simple steps towards more sustainable lives.  The DoNation is easy to follow and carry out with a broad range of core green actions that people can do to reduce their carbon emissions. These range from eating less meat, cycling to work, or washing your clothes at 30°C, to installing solar panels.

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